Electrical connecting device

• US 3,178,669 A
• Filed: 06/12/1964
• Issued: 04/13/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lincoln E. Roberts
• Original Assignee: Lincoln E. Roberts
• Inventors: Roberts, Lincoln E.
• Application Number:
  US04/374,801
• Time in Patent Office: 305 Days
• US Class Current: 439/291
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/28 Contacts for sliding cooperation with identically-shaped contact, e.g. for hermaphroditic coupling devices H01R24/84 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/64 Means for preventing incorrect coupling
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12201 Width or thickness variation or marginal cuts repeating longitudinally
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12264 having outward flange, gripping means or interlocking feature
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12354 Nonplanar, uniform-thickness material having symmetrical channel shape or reverse fold [e.g., making acute angle, etc.]

Claims

5. AN INSERTABLE CONTACT TERMINAL FOR AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR COMPRISING, AN ELONGATED WEB, A PAIR OF SIDEWALLS EXTENDING FROM OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID WEB AT ONE END THEREOF, STABILIZING MEANS EXTENDING FROM SAID WEB AT THE OPPOSITE END THEREOF, SAID STABILIZING MEANS AND SAID SIDEWALLS BEING COOPERABLE WITH THE SIDEWALLS OF A CONNECTOR BLOCK CAVITY OF STABILIZE AND CONTACT TERMINAL WITHIN SAID CAVITY, MEANS ON SAID WEB INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS THEREOF FOR SECURING SAID CONTACT TO AN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR, A PAIR OF ARMS EXTENDING FROM AND CONSTITUTING PLANAR EXTENSIONS OF EACH OF SAID SIDEWALLS, A FIRST ONE OF SAID ARMS HAVING AN INTERMEDIATE CUSP PORTION DIRECTED INWARDLY TOWARDS THE AXIS OF SAID CONTACT AND HAVING A DIVERGING END PORTION TERMINATING IN AN OUTWARDLY FACING CONTACT SURFACE, THE SECOND ONE OF SAID ARMS, BEING SUBSTANTIALLY SHORTER THAN SAID FIRST ARM AND HAVING AN INWARDLY DIRECTED INTERMEDIATE SECTION, A CONTACT RAMP EXTENDING DIVERGENTLY OF THE AXIS OF SAID CONTACT FROM SAID INTERMEDIATE SECTION AND TERMINATING IN AN OUTWARDLY HOOKED END PORTION, SAID CONTACT TERMINAL BEING MATEABLE WITH AN IDENTICAL CONTACT TERMINAL UPON AXIAL MOVEMENT OF SAID CONTACTS TOWARDS EACH OTHER UNTIL THE CONTACT SURFACE OF THE FIRST ARM OF EACH CONTACT TERMINAL ENGAGES THE CONTACT RAMP OF THE SECOND ARM OF THE OTHER CONTACT TERMINAL.